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no apparent flowers. Thus, the heath-cock glitters 

 on the gray verdure of the pine, whofe apples ferve 

 him for food. The goldfinch builds his nefl in the 

 rough fullers-thiftle. The mod beautiful of our 

 caterpillars, which is marbled with fcarlet, is to 

 be found on a fpecies of the tithymal, that ufu- 

 ally grows in the fands, and amidft die quarries of 

 the forefl of Fontainbleau. On the contrary, our 

 birds of dufky hue inhabit fhrubbery with gay- 

 coloured flowers. The black- headed bullfinch 

 builds his nefl in the white-thorn, and that lovely 

 bird exhibits a farther mofl agreeable conformance 

 and contrafi with the prickly fhrub where he re- 

 fides, by his blood -ftained bread, and the fweet- 

 nefs of his fong. The nightingale, with brown 

 plumage, delights to neftle in the rofe-bufh, ac- 

 cording to the traditions of the oriental Poets, 

 who have founded many a charming fable on the 

 loves of that melancholy bird for the rofe. 



I could here exhibit a multitude of other har- 

 monies, of a fimilar nature, refpecling the animals 

 both of our own, and of foreign countries. I 

 have collected thefe to a very confiderable num- 

 ber ; but 1 , I acknowledge, they are too incomplete 

 to admit of my forming of them the entire concert 

 of one plant. I (hall, however, treat the fubject 

 more at large, under the article of vegetables. It 



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